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Schumer accused of yearlong plot to plant 'decoy' candidate in critical Senate race (Alaska)
Fox News ^ | 10/30/26 | Alex Miller

Posted on 10/30/2026 3:13:07 PM PDT by Libloather

The Senate’s No. 2 Republican believes that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had a hand in the alleged scheme unfolding in the Alaska Senate race.

Operatives for Rep. Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign, along with top aides in Senate Democrats’ campaign apparatus, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), are alleged to have been involved in creating one of the stranger races this election cycle: finding and recruiting another candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against the incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, R-Alaska, according to reporting from The New York Times.

National Democrats have maintained they had no hand in the move, but Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., told Fox News Digital in an interview that he believes the campaign received help from the very top.

"I mean, this is criminal behavior to steal the Alaska Senate race, it's now been fully exposed," Barrasso said. "And there is proof that the Peltola campaign knew about it, and that Schumer schemed and colluded with them for over a year to try to search for and then coax a decoy of Dan Sullivan onto the ballot with a purpose only to deceive the voters."

Schumer’s office and Peltola's campaign did not respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital.

The peculiar situation in Alaska has been ongoing for months and has sparked legal battles at the state and national levels, as well as condemnation from Republicans across the country, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.

Murkowski argued on X that "ballot-stacking should have no place in our electoral process."

"Alaskans deserve the honest truth from Mary and her campaign — what has been revealed is a pattern of lies and coverups and a culture of deception that belongs nowhere in our elections or among our elected officials," she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: decoy; marypeltola; schmukie; schumer; senatealaska

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Chuckles knew.
1 posted on 10/30/2026 3:13:07 PM PDT by Libloather
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Simultaneous civil and criminal investigation over Alaska Dem ballot-stacking allegations

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/4-days-to-go-battle-for-control-of-congress-intensifies-as-midterms-reach-their-final-stretch-october-30


2 posted on 10/30/2026 3:15:17 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather

This is a senate race. A federal position. The balance of Congress hinges on

This isn’t some county sheriff backwoods deal; it’s not even George santos seat in Huntington station.

This is the senate


3 posted on 10/30/2026 3:22:08 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Libloather

What a filthy trick! They all need to be prosecuted to the fullest!


4 posted on 10/30/2026 3:25:33 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Libloather
But but... The democrats are just “saving our democracy” from Republicans, right? At least that's what they never stop squawking about.
5 posted on 10/30/2026 3:29:59 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Libloather

Schumer knew, aided, and participated through overt acts in violation of criminal law. In other words, Schumer was part of a criminal conspiracy.


6 posted on 10/30/2026 3:42:05 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Libloather

Get Murkowski too
Bring every slimeball involved with this down, no slap on wrists..hard time for these evil bastards


7 posted on 10/30/2026 3:45:06 PM PDT by rainee (Drain the swamp! )
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To: Rockingham

Schumer has one of the most punchable faces out there. I just wish someone would.


8 posted on 10/30/2026 4:12:17 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

We need Chuckie to fight the good fight against AOC for his seat. I’d prosecute only if he withdraws or loses. Light a fire under his ass.


9 posted on 10/30/2026 4:40:48 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Libloather

I’m sure he knew…. But I’m also sure he left no trail leading back to him. He hasn’t survived so long in DC by being that careless.


10 posted on 10/30/2026 5:36:17 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.)
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To: Libloather

Should be in prison but that’ll never happen.


11 posted on 10/30/2026 7:23:11 PM PDT by bgill
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To: crusty old prospector

Schumer is likely to suffer the humiliation of ouster by a DSA candidate in his next primary.


12 posted on 10/30/2026 7:33:40 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham

With an Arab surname.


13 posted on 10/30/2026 7:37:09 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

And a given name from the Koran. And after being defeated, Schumer is likely to endorse him against the Republican.


14 posted on 10/30/2026 7:50:23 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Libloather

The fake candidate will have nothing to lose when questioned under oath so long as he tells the truth. He will have all to lose if he lies.

Questions:

1. Where you approached by the Peltolas campaign to run for office?
2. Were you given money or promises of money to run? Oddly the money is yours regardless of what you say or did.
3. Why did you want to change your middle name to that of the Republican candidate?
4. Have you ever run for any political office in your life and why are you running now?
5. This is not DC and perjury is taken very seriously in Alaska.

PS
He has not been interviewed by the media on the left or the right as he seems to be hiding in the wilderness. A true candidate would be in front of the media each and every chance they can get.


15 posted on 10/30/2026 7:58:59 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deck hand, roughneck, geologist, commercial pilot instructor, pharmacist MAGA+)
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To: Rockingham

Schumer has become the useful idiot to the red/green alliance.
He just doesn’t know it yet.
There will come a day with the muslim/commies have used him up and he will be voted out or have an “accident”.

Either way, he is on his way out, whether he likes it or not.


16 posted on 10/30/2026 8:01:18 PM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: Libloather

RICO them all.


17 posted on 10/30/2026 8:10:23 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Libloather

If Shumer was involved. he would get jail time because what this decoy action was is election interference, a Federal crime worth years in prison. That prison time also applies to Sullivan’s opposition, Mary Peltola.“I think they should be prosecuted,” President Donald Trump said Wednesday, referring to Peltola and Dan J. Sullivan. “To me, that’s voter fraud at the highest level.”


18 posted on 10/31/2026 12:52:09 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The DemonKKKrat Marxists ride Unicorns on their fantasy farms.)
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To: Rummyfan
I’m sure he knew…. But I’m also sure he left no trail leading back to him.

That's impossible.

The New York Times already implicated the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) in this, and as Democrat minority leader in the Senate, Schumer controls the DSCC. The current Chairperson of the DSCC is Schumer's junior Senator from New York Kirsten Gillibrand who is nominally in charge, with Vice Chairs Mark Kelly and Adam Schiff.

From The New York Times Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot:

Excerpt:

...It also involved the Peltola campaign’s lawyers, as well as senior aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which directs the party’s campaign strategy in Senate races across the country. From Washington to Anchorage, those advisers participated in regular conversations about the effort and even considered forming a new political party to draw conservatives onto the ballot...

Both the Peltola campaign and the D.S.C.C. denied participating in efforts to recruit spoilers to the ballot in Alaska. Neither group addressed a detailed list of questions provided by The Times...

The operation began in the summer of 2025 to lure potential spoiler candidates onto the state’s unusual four-person ballot, Ms. Rios said. In one early meeting, she said, aides with the D.S.C.C. introduced a veteran Democratic operative named Jerid Kurtz to Ms. Rios and Anton McParland, who at the time was Ms. Peltola’s chief of staff. Mr. Kurtz, a native of Ohio, was introduced as a specialist in secret ballot maneuvers, Ms. Rios said...

Text messages viewed by The Times show officials with the D.S.C.C. and the Peltola campaign communicating for months about the project. Mr. McParland asked for updates from “Jarid,” “Jared” or “our friend,” and D.S.C.C. officials quickly scheduled calls, the messages showed...

“I am hearing that our friend in the state is being noticed,” Mr. McParland wrote in a text message in January reviewed by The Times. Andrew Piatt, the D.S.C.C.’s director of campaigns, replied: “We will check in...”

Throughout the spring, the campaign swapped leads with the D.S.C.C. on potential candidates and continued to participate in efforts to shape the ballot...

Even as the Peltola campaign and D.S.C.C. officials denied participation in the operation, the texts and documents reviewed by The Times show it involved the party’s Senate committee and its top law firm. At one point, when Peltola campaign aides toyed with an audacious idea to establish a right-wing state party that could challenge the incumbent senator, they contacted D.S.C.C. officials.

“Imagine if there was a MAGA party!” Mr. McParland, of the Peltola campaign, wrote in January.

“Smart,” replied Mr. Piatt, the D.S.C.C.’s director of campaigns. “Let’s see...”

...in June, the D.S.C.C. celebrated alongside the campaign when an Alaska court cleared the way for the other Dan Sullivan to stay on the ballot.

“Other Dan won, will be on ballot,” Shelbi Dantic, a D.S.C.C. employee, wrote in an internal group chat. Three people — two Peltola aides and a member of the D.S.C.C. staff — reacted with heart emojis.

-PJ

19 posted on 10/31/2026 1:45:27 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

Schmuckie Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff — that’s a nest of vipers right there!


20 posted on 10/31/2026 2:26:55 AM PDT by deks (America cannot be made great in complete isolation from the adversaries that are harming Americans)
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